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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.” - Steve Jobs

For those of you NOT at Yahoo, Google, or a design consultancy – hope exists for innies

I am now in the middle of my 4th week at my new position at Symbol Technologies and I couldnt be happier than a pig in sh*t and I really feel compelled to tell you all why, as I believe many of you are in current positions very similar to ...

Trekstor – Vibez: Taking the iPod interface to a new look & feel

Vibez is a new MP3 player by European Disk/Memory/USB drive maker Trekstor. I haven't seen these in person yet, but the look is really different take on the very basic makeup of the iPod pattern structure. Nicely done (in spirit). I like the idea of a more rubberized "moving" wheel which ...

Encouraging [blank] Taking an aesthetic idea from architecture and bringing it to IxD.

Often in my reading of design literature I come across the phrase encouraging , especially in architecture. Recently, I was reading BusinessWeeks Architecture Awards selection and a few times I read that phrase. Whether it be encouraging creativity, encouraging collaboration, encouraging productivity, etc. This use of the term encouraging to discuss ...

More thoughts on pliability as an aesthetic of IxD

Last week, I wrote a short blurb referencing Jonas Lwgren's article describing pliability as a type of aesthetic for interaction design. Here I expand a little more on the topic with some of my own ideas. As a refresher, Jonas uses the word "pliability" to describe the quality of an interaction ...

Speaking in Israel next month – Jan 9th – for UPA Israel

I'll be giving an updated and revised version of my "What is rich? Why do rich?" presentation next month for UPA Israel on Jan 9th @ 6:30p. The link below has the announcement in Hebrew. I hope to have it in English soon and will post here. My talk will ...

Jonas Lwgren to speak in Stockholm, Sweden for Local IxDA

Jonas Lwgren, mentioned in an earlier posting this week, will be discussing aesthetics of IxD, at a presentation to the Sweden IxDA local group in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 11. Here's the announcement. Wish I could be there.

Podcast: Designing Powerful and Interactive Web Applications, an interview with David Malouf and Bill Scott

Listen to the podcast interview of my partner in AJAX Design Crime, Bill Scott (Yahoo!) and me answer some great questions from the likes of Jared Spool and Joshua Porter of UIE and Bokardo fame, come and listen to this podcast. Hopefully it will give you just a taste of ...

Motorola – MOTOFONE

I just wanted to point people to this very well done presentation by the design team responsible for the new, low-cost MOTOFONE by Motorola for developing countries. What's been interesting is how much initial reaction from the design community has been, "When will you release it here?". Disclaimer: Sometime early next ...

Design in 2006

2006 by David Armano and his readers David Armanom, of Logic+Emotion fame, put together a great presentation of what 2006 was all about from an Experience Design perspective. Enjoy! You can look at the presentation above and also read the intro article (also available in PDF). Oh! and I'm one of the many ...

Progressive Disclosure (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

It is rare that I post a reference to Jakob Nielsen, but this latest Alert Box is worth a read. Nothing "new", but brought all together nicely. To put it simply, "Progressive Disclosure" is just a design pattern of deciding what needs to be in the primary context of use, and ...

Pliability as an experiential quality: Exploring the aesthetics of interaction design

Finally! a GREAT!!!! example of a quality of interaction design aesthetics explained. In this case by Jonas Lwgren of Malm University's School of Arts and Communication. Jonas wrote the article a while back, but I finally got to it this past week with my new long commute. This is one of ...

Why It’s Not Damning to Define the Thing

This was originally published by ACM Interactions magazine in their May-June, 2013 Edition as part of their Confessions column. I re-print it here with their permission as columns like these are not made available to the public as a whole. Thank you ACM for allowing me to do this. Why It's ...

Coordination vs. Collaboration

Recently I've been made aware of different ways of thinking about "collaboration". It kinda took me for surprise be specially given the geo-social contexts, but there is no ignoring it. What I learned as two completely different activities some use the same word for or more correctly use the term ...

Report from Up to All Of Us

I'm currently on a plane heading back home after a short weekend with a group of mostly instructional designers who are at a new type of unconference (something I've never experienced before). It felt more like a retreat than a conference due to the setting and the style of interaction ...
December 12th 2012
Tags: education, general thoughts One Comment

As Corona says, “Change your Latitude [Longitude]” – Travel is awesome.

Today I sparked a bit of a conversation after I tweeted: Everyone who is creative should move every 5-10 years; to minimally find a way to live somewhere else for a yr (sabbatical). http://twitter.com/daveixd/status/278919010391826432 Why do I put such importance on travel? What value does it give a creative person? And to the ...

Today Johnny Holland says Goodbye and I am sad & grateful

Today Johnny Holland, the amazing Interaction Design online magazine says goodbye. This news makes me feel both sad and grateful. Johnny Holland (JH) has been a rare place that allowed me to include my voice where other magazines rejected the types of topics I was interested in discussing: esoteric, foundational, semantic, ...

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